Move notifications

[abossy]

I have an increasing problem with the move notifications - or more specifically a complete lack of them.

The underlying problem seems to be that Fitbit gives me a ridiculously high resting heart rate.  This is clearly linked to bifrucated sleep.  If I wake up in the middle of the night and don't go right back to sleep, it sets a resting heart rate based upon that segment of sleep, when my body is still digesting dinner.  It then does not reset the heart rate lower when I go back to sleep, and my heartrate goes still lower.

During the day, I'll be at work. I have a desk job, so I'm at my actual resting heartrate - which is a few beats a minute lower than what Fitbit had assumed. Even though I'm typing, the resting heartrate never gets readjusted down to where it should be.

Is there a way to force Fitbit to recalculate one's resting heart rate based upon one's total time asleep, or just to tell it that I want move reminders, even if you think that I'm asleep?

[JohnnyRow]

1. Move notifications have nothing to do with resting heart rate.  It is for taking at least 250 steps per hour during the hours you have selected.
2. I am skeptical your sleep pattern is causing your RHR to be "ridiculously high".  I wonder what Fitbit says your RHR is, compared to what you think it should be, and why you think it should be that.  Terms like "ridiculously high" can mean very different things to different people here.  Some people might think it is a ridiculous error is heart rate is two BPMs too high; others might think "ridiculously" start at 30 BPM too high.

For more on reminders to move, see

Reminders to move 

[abossy]

Today, for example, it says that my resting heart rate is 60 bpm.  Yet, having just checked my watch, it is currently 54 bpm.  During the course of the day, when I check the numbers, it has fluctuated between 53-58 while I am sitting. It has only broken 60 when I have been walking. Yet, during the course of the day, there has been no adjustment to my resting heart rate - it remains stuck at 60.

The 60 bpm was created when I initially fell asleep after a meal.  I woke up again several hours later, and when I went back to sleep, my heart rate was on average 20 bpm  lower than during the initial sleep, but the resting heartrate was not adjusted.

My active hours are set for 6 AM- 8 PM. I have not received an alert for three of those hours today. However, on days when it recognizes a reasonable resting heartrate (55-58), I almost never miss a notification, and if I do, it's only on a day when it has given me a resting heartrate of 58.

[MarciM]

Hi @abossy 

Are you sure you didn't take 250+ steps during any of the hours that you think you missed a reminder to move notification. You will only receive the notification if you in fact haven't moved for 250 steps in that hour. I'd suggest checking to see if this is the reason you didn't receive the notification. Move notification are not linked to your resting heart rate unless your tracker is recognizing your lack of movement and heart rate as sleeping. 

[JohnnyRow]

About "resting heart rate", some sources consider your RHR to be the lowest heart rate recorded during a day, though disagreement whether that should include during sleep.  Fitbit uses a different method, though it does not reveal the specifics of how it is determined.  But it is common to see one's heart rate below Fitbit's RHR.

It would be a rare Fitbit user who does not wake up at least once during the night.  I doubt that makes your RHR calculation a special case.

I expect any correlation you see between getting reminders to move and you RHR is only coincidence.

[abossy]

Marci, this is about hours when I haven't done 250+ steps, but am not receiving the reminder.

[abossy]

I'm not sure why you are so resistant to this - you aren't supposed to get notifications while you are asleep, and Fitbit determines whether you are awake based upon a combination of movement and heart rate.  Therefore, if it is using an inaccurate resting heartrate, it will inaccurately assume that you are asleep while you are sitting down/not moving.

FWIW, the pattern has been consistent since the change to the current GUI.  It just annoyed me enough to ask if there is a way to force the tool to recalculate the resting heartbeat and resolve the problem.

[JohnnyRow]

There is no way to force recalculation of RHR.

[emili]

I think you must be super still then. The only time my tracker thinks I am asleep is when I am reading and not moving at all for longer than 30 minutes. I am sedentary for most of my day as well because I work from home at a desk job. I do talk on the phone and shift around in my chair. My RHR is 48 and while I am at work it is seldom above 52. Maybe wave your arms around sporadically through the day..